1. Commission Activities Eurostat : Latest developments
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Commission Activities Eurostat : Latest developments

2. Item 3 - Recent developments - Eurostat
European statistics
A Vision for the next decade
Communication 404 from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council, 10/8/2009
Re-engineering of social statistics
More focus on wellbeing indicators (Stiglitz Commission, GDP and Beyond)
More use of data linking / data matching?
For further development and discussion
Regulation on European statistics
Regulation No. 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 11/3/2009
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3. Regulation (EC) no 223/2009 on European Statistics, 11 March 2009
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Regulation (EC) no 223/2009 on European Statistics, 11 March 2009
Basis for the development, production and dissemination of statistics within the European Statistical System (ESS)
Binding rules on statistical principles to be followed, in particular the European Statistics Code of Practice setting quality criteria
Definition of the ESS and its partners
Establishment of the ESSC – representatives of the national statistical authorities
Roles of European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) to advise on implementation of Code of Practice and European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) to represent user needs
Specific chapter on statistical confidentiality/protection and transmission of confidential data
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4. Crime statistics : Working Group & Task Forces
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Crime statistics : Working Group & Task Forces
The Working Group was set up as referred to Commission Communication of 7/8/2006 (Action Plan ) and in the Commission Decision setting up the Expert Group
Annual meetings of Working Group held 2007, 2008, 2009
Regular reports to annual meeting of Directors of Social Statistics; most recently a report on implementation of the Action Plan, September 2009
Mandate of the Working Group also includes the option: “To identify specific tasks within the European Statistical System relevant to the Action Plan for delegation to task forces, and to propose the mandates and members of such task forces.”
Two task forces are currently operational
victimisation
crime data availability
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Meetings held in 2009
Working Group, Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, February
Task Force, Victimisation surveys, 4-5 June
Task Force, Crime Data Availability, October
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Council and Commission programmes relating to crime and criminal justice
The Hague Programme : Strengthening freedom, security and justice in the European Union, adopted by the European Council November 2004
Developing a comprehensive and coherent EU strategy to measure crime and criminal justice: An EU Action Plan 2006 – 2010, Communication from the Commission, COM/2006/0437
The Stockholm Programme : An open and secure Europe serving and protecting the citizens, adopted by the European Council December 2009
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Statistical activities under the Stockholm programme More effective crime prevention
Continue developing statistical tools to measure crime and criminal activities
Reflect on how to further develop, after 2010, the actions outlined and partly implemented in the EU Action Plan
Set up an Observatory for the Prevention of Crime (OPC), the tasks of which will be to collect analyse and disseminate knowledge on crime (including organised crime (including statistics)
Commission to submit a proposal on setting up the OPC by 2013 at the latest
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8. Statistical work programme of the Commission, 2010
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Statistical work programme of the Commission, 2010
Theme Statistics on crime and criminal justice
Data collection on police-reported crime, police numbers and prison population
Extend to reference year 2008
Quality improvements in data and metadata
Development of indicators in new areas of crime, in conjunction with Expert Group on data needs
Collaboration with other international organisations on development of a crime classification system
Victimisation
Finalise pilot exercises in Member States and evaluate results
Prepare proposal for EU security survey
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9. Thank you for your attention
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Thank you for your attention